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wiped down her long, wooden table in the kitchen. “All done; just a quick sweep with the broom and we can sit down.”
    “Let me do it, Emma.” Angela rushed for the broom and began to sweep the kitchen.
    “ Denke , I’ll make us some meadow tea.” Emma put the kettle on the stove and got the tea ready. “Don’t fuss too much with the floor, Angela. I’ll wash it tomorrow.”
    Once the tea was poured, Emma carried the tea, chocolate cookies and her favorite chocolate soft centers out to the living room.
    “This is a nice big room, Emma,” Angela said as she sat on the couch.
    “ Jah , it’s just as we wanted. Levi, my late husband built the haus for us.” Emma passed Angela the tea.
    “Will you live in Wil’s haus when you get married?”
    Emma sat down opposite Angela and put the pink flowered teacup to her lips and took a sip. The teacups had been a gift from Levi on the announcement of their marriage. They were far more fancy than the china she had been used to, which was plain white with maybe a small pattern. As she placed the cup down onto the saucer, she said, “We haven’t even decided that.” Emma looked around the room. “This haus reminds me of Levi. I wouldn’t want someone else to live in it, neither would I feel comfortable living in it with Wil, especially when he has his own haus on the next door farm.”
    Emma watched Angela bite into a chocolate cookie.
    “You know, now I say that out aloud I realize that’s what’s stopping Wil and I moving forward. I just can’t see where we could live,” Emma said.
    “That makes sense.”
    “Does it? Sometimes it seems as nothing makes sense to me. Nothing has fallen into place. Nowhere feels right for us to live.”
    “Perhaps you’re thinking ahead too much? I know it would be hard to leave this place, but it is after all just a haus ,” Angela said.
    Nee, it’s not just a haus, Emma thought. Emma drew comfort from living in the haus that Levi had built for them. It was as if part of him was still there. Angela’s words seemed harsh. Emma studied Angela as she sat in front of her, nibbling on the cookie. She hadn’t meant any offence; Angela couldn’t know the feelings that she had for the haus or the comfort it filled her with.
    Angela looked up and caught her eye. “I didn’t mean to upset you, Emma.”
    “I’m not upset. I’m realizing just how attached I am to this haus .”
    Angela nodded sympathetically and passed her up the plate of cookies. Emma took a cookie and held it in her hand. What was the answer? Where would she and Wil live after they married?
    Angela broke through Emma’s pondering when she said, “Robert asked me to go back there tomorrow.”
    Emma was pleased that they had arranged to meet again. “I’ll drive you there.”
    “ Denke , would afternoon suit you? He’s hoping I’ll have some word from Elsa-May helping to clear his bruder’s name. I’m hoping we might have some information by afternoon.”
    Emma raised her eyebrows. “That seems a little hopeful since he’s gone two years with no information.”
    Angela gasped and covered her mouth. “I hope I didn’t give him false hope when I told him of Elsa-May’s abilities.”
    “We’ll all do the best that we can. Besides, it’ll give you reason to keep speaking to him.” Emma giggled.
    “ Jah , I know it will.”
    “I saw when he brought you here this afternoon that he had the look in his eye that a mann has when he likes what he sees.”
    Angela’s face brightened. “You think so?”
    Emma smiled at the look of delight on Angela’s face. “I do.”
    Angela breathed in and let her breath out slowly. “I’ll sleep well tonight.”
     

Chapter 6.
    But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
    Hebrews 11:6
     
    Emma was woken by a shaft of light entering her bedroom from where her two curtains met in the middle. She had